Hi folks,

while migrating stuff to an fresh Gentoo box, I've recognized 
that useradd doesn't accept usernames starting with a digit
(while manually changing in passwd still seems to work fine).

Why does Gentoo's useradd doesnt accept usernames starting 
digits, while other distros do ?


cu
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